National Cheng Kung University Chinese Language Center
Student, August 2015 - October 2016
Lived in an exclusively Mandarin speaking environment.
Obtained Level Three (Advanced) in the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language.
ThoughtWorks (Australia, India, Singapore, China)
Senior Consultant, August 2010 - August 2015
Led software delivery projects, in both English and Mandarin, for partners ranging from startups, NGOs, and corporations.
Established office culture, helped scale from ~5 to 20+ consultants, closed and grew key accounts during expansion into the South-East Asian market.
Wrote and deployed code across a mix of tech stacks including Rails, iOS, Android, Symfony, Spring, ASP.NET and a variety of PaaS and IaaS.
Advanced free and open-source efforts by effecting policy change, community outreach, and direct contribution.
Developed interactive course teaching test-driven development used on multiple continents with hundreds of students.
Mentored individuals, taught groups sizes up to 50+ from mixed cultural backgrounds on organizational change, emerging technologies, and development process.
Cardiox
Contract Engineer, February 2010 - April, 2010
Audited and rebuilt the operating system for a heart defect detector in human testing.
Increased velocity and reliability by automating the operating system's build and test process.
Improved user experience by increasing audio subsystem quality and reducing latency.
Sped up test and validation by introducing emulated device environments.
Kept vendor provided I/O drivers inline with continued Linux kernel changes.
Career Break (Earth)
Traveller, February 2009 - June, 2010
Inadvertently circumnavigated. Kept writing code.
Wrote a photo uploader robust to developing-world Internet connections.
Contributed to the Eventlet concurrent networking library.
Put together an e-mail driven daily journal interface to a blogging web service.
Inspired by a Eurovision artist, made an app to call faraway friends with the music of your choice.
Added the JSON frontend to the Notmuch full-text mail indexer.
Microsoft Corporation
Software Development Engineer, January 2008 - February, 2009
Lead developer on the management interface for unreleased Windows system and service orchestration tooling.
Designed compilers, translators and analysis tools for interoperation with external data sources.
Improved team collaboration by introducing wikis, direct mentoring, and an internal and external talk series.
